Thread by @garius

Well this has been a day of being amazed at how many people CANNOT separate:

"Well I think the law should work X way"

From:

"The law actually works X way"

You can't argue with how the law works. And if you want to change it for the BETTER, you have to start by accepting that.

Operational Control of policing in London is not the same as Strategic Control no matter how hard you wish it was

Your ten minutes of googling is not the same as having covered City Hall, its output, and its endless debates, committees and legislation for the last fifteen years.

I'm not a "Khan apologist". The man ghosted me for YEARS because I highlighted the MASSIVE fuck-up his fare freeze was.

All I did this morning was try to clarify the LEGISLATION. If you want to make better hot takes, you have to accept and understand the law.

If we want a better, fairer Metropolitan police, then that starts with trying to stop the Police Bill on Monday. It then continues through pursuing the framework for reviewing Dick's position (now underway), and what needs to be done to address the Met's institutional issues.

But if you refuse to accept the law as it is, just because it doesn't match your world view of what you think the law SHOULD be, then you are failing at the first hurdle of CHANGING it for the better.

Because you can't change something you refuse to understand.

Real politics, and real change in London, won't come through a Twitter hot take. Or a quick gotcha blog or website article.

It's built on actually engaging with, and understanding, the legislative framework on which our great city runs (or in this case fails to run). /END

Which is all a long way of saying, as @HindChristopher has so excellently reminded me:

Your feelings are NOT the law.